Nathan Vass
Nathan Vass is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, and author by day, and a Metro bus driver by night, where his community-building work has been showcased on TED, NPR, The Seattle Times, KING 5 and landed him a spot on Seattle Magazine’s 2018 list of the 35 Most Influential People in Seattle. He has shown in over forty photography shows is also the director of nine films, six of which have shown at festivals, and one of which premiered at Henry Art Gallery. His book, The Lines That Make Us, is a Seattle bestseller and 2019 WA State Book Awards finalist.
People often ask me what "the most craziest thing" I've ever experienced on the bus is. Naturally there are far too many such incidents...
Jim is waiting at Walker Street, the first stop on the route 4. Normally he prefers to walk off his workday by strolling over...
"Thank you. I hope it's a pleasant rest of the evening for you," I say to someone at Third and Union, on a late-night...
I was riding the 7 one night, going out to Orcas to meet a friend. Rain peeled down from all corners of the globe...
"You're a foonie bus-drivin' horse master, y' know thaht?"
"Oh yeah?"
I'm strolling back to my bus one morning at Aurora Village Transit Center, after using...
John (a different John, not the fellow from the 358 posts) seems to come from another age. Multicolored crumbs pepper his dry lips and beard. His...
The actual words spoken were not so much the meat of the exchange. It was the noises in between. You have to imagine the...
"I got my transfer in here somewhere." We're at 185th inbound, and her face is lined with age and humor, that kind of spirit...